Posts not appearing in the reader category threads

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    healthehelen · Member ·

    I might be being daft here but my last two posts don’t seem to have appeared in the reader feeds for the categories I’ve selected for them.

    The categories appear on my dashboard and are marked on the post – for example the yoga post was marked in categories for fitness, exercise and travel – but when I scan down those categories on my reader I can’t see them. I used to (my post on Saturday went in the right categories) so am a bit confused. Can anyone explain?

    I know they are online somewhere as I’ve got non followers liking them but just not where I expect to find them. Thanks.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    All reasons for non-appearance of posts on Topics pages can be found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

    If you have assigned a combined total that exceeds 15 Categories/Tags to your posts, you need to edit and delete. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/ After removal of the excess categories and/or tags note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there.

    if that is the case then you are inadvertently spamdexing AKA tag spamming. And, you ought to be more concerned about your posts not appearing and being well ranked on Google and Bing SERPS (search results pages) than not appearing on the WordPress.com Topics pages because it’s search engines that send a significant flow of traffic to blogs and they can choose to bury your content where the sun don’t shine for tag spamming.

    The rule of thumb is to assign to your posts the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the individual post content.

    For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/

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    healthehelen · Member ·

    Thanks, that might explain it – I tagged a lot of teachers names in the yoga one. Really helpful advice and duly noted.

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